Tag: Spinal Cord Injury

London to Paris bike ride for injured Sian

PE teacher tackles charity event just four years after breaking back A PE teacher from Llanfair Caereinion will cycle from London to Paris just...

Scientists make Mice Walk After Spinal Cord Injury

Have you ever wondered how we move our hand, feet and other parts of the body? It is through signals emanating from brain giving...

Gel Enables Severed Spinal Cord Fibers to Regrow

April 10 (HealthDay News) -- A nano-engineered gel that inhibits the formation of scar tissue at the site of a spinal injury and enables...

Gym gets people with disabilities in shape

Because of a spinal cord injury, Elizabeth Fust is paralyzed from the mid-back down, but don't expect to see her sitting idly by, twiddling...

Bills’ Everett has minor surgery to relieve neck pain

Kevin Everett is recovering after having minor surgery this week to relieve pain in his neck, which was related to the severe spinal cord...

A cyclist’s uphill battle to get his life back

The attorney lay awake in his hospital room, listening. Even now, in the cold November dawn, helicopters landed, sirens wailed and respirators hummed with purpose....

Gymnasium is fit for people with disability

A COMMUNITY-based gymnasium for people with a physical Disability has started in Sutherland Shire. The Burn Rubber Burn centre is an initiative of the NSW...

Promising new drug for spinal cord injuries

Each year in the United States, about 11,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury. Recent research shows what happens in the first days after an...

Nanotechnology may help spinal cord injury

EVANSTON, Ill., April 7 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have created a nano-engineered gel that can enable severed spinal cord fibers to regenerate...

Experimental Russian stem cell treatments for spinal injury credited for woman’s progress

When Kadi DeHaan took her first steps in December, two years after a car accident forced her into a wheelchair, she did it in...